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Read reviews from the world’s largest community for readers. 5 Great Civil War books in 1 eBook. Some fiction and some historical a must have for any Civi… Civil War Collection Vol 2 by Louisa May Alcott | Goodreads
11 mag 2011 · 5 Great Civil War books in 1 eBook. Some fiction and some historical a must have for any Civil War buff. This eBook has an active table of contents and most book inside have active table of contents within.HOSPITAL SKETCHES By LOUISA MAY ALCOTTLIGHTS AND SHADOWS IN...
FROM CHAPTER ELEVEN: I’ve Often Longed to See a War. Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women, by Harriet Reisen. By 1862, as she approached her thirtieth birthday Louisa was restless, and hungry for adventure before it was too late. “Decided to go to Washington as a nurse if I could find a place,” she wrote in her journal for ...
- November, 1862
- December, 1862
- January, 1863
- February, 1862
November. – Thirty years old. Decided to go to Washington as nurse if I could find a place. Help needed, and I love nursing, and mustlet out my pent-up energy in some new way. Winter is always a hard and a dull time, and if I am away there is one less to feed and warm and worry over. I want new experiences, and am sure to get ’em if I go. So I’ve s...
December. – On the 11th I received a note from Miss H. M. Stevenson telling me to start for Georgetown next day to fill a place in the Union Hotel Hospital. Mrs. Ropes of Boston was matron, and Miss Kendall of Plymouth was a nurse there, and though a hard place, help was needed. I was ready, and when my commander said “March!” I marched. Packed my ...
January, 1863. Union Hotel Hospital, Georgetown, D. C. – I never began the year in a stranger place than this: five hundred miles from home, alone, among strangers, doing painful duties all day long, and leading a life of constant excitement in this great house, surrounded by three or four hundred men in all stages of suffering, disease, and death....
February – Recovered my senses after three weeks of delirium, and was told I had had a very bad typhoid fever, had nearly died, and was still very sick. All of which seemed rather curious, for I remembered nothing of it. Found a queer, thin, big-eyed face when I looked in the glass; didn’t know myself at all; and when I tried to walk discovered tha...
Louisa May Alcott's Civil War Fiction ELIZABETH YOUNG Mount Holyoke College "WAR WAS MEN'S BUSINESS, NOT LADIES'," REMARKS MARGARET Mitchell's narrator in Gone With the Wind.1 Critical accounts of the fiction of the American Civil War have honored this division, construct-ing a literary genealogy of the war that foregrounds male accounts of
Louisa May Alcott. Louisa May Alcott ( Germantown, 29 novembre 1832 [1] – Boston, 6 marzo 1888) è stata una scrittrice statunitense, principalmente nota come l'autrice della tetralogia di libri per ragazzi Piccole donne [1] . Scrisse anche sotto lo pseudonimo A. M. Barnard .
Louisa May Alcott craved action. The Civil War gave her a chance, and she took it. In the Fall of 1862 she applied to serve as a nurse in Washington. On December 11th of that yaer, she received orders to report to the Union Hotel Hospital, a converted tavern. There she set to work.
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